Rapid and efficient cloning of cDNAs encoding Kruppel-like zinc finger proteins by degenerate PCR

Gene

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 55-64

  Agata, Yasutoshi ^a   Matsuda, Eishou ^a   Shimizu, Akira ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

C2H2 type zinc finger; Degenerate primer; Gene family; H C link; MOK2 gene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPLEEN; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032526044     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00213-3     Document Type: Article

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